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Does IT Matter? 'No!' - I mean 'Yes!'

Nicholas Carr shares his most recent thoughts regarding his 'Does IT Matter?' essay and book. Carr's...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/26/2005

The real top 10 tips for blogging anonymously

Tim Yang tells it how it is - the real top 10 tips for anonymous blogging: "As many of you know,...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/25/2005

Clever, distributed, Web 2.0 marketing - powered by RSS

Noticed something this morning. Let me try to explain.... Mary Jo Foley (of Microsoft Watch) is...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/24/2005

I'm doing this for therapy.

Apparently I'm writing this for therapy.

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/23/2005

Microsoft., 30 years old (again)

Microsoft is celebrating its 30th anniversary at the company’s annual meeting today (sadly I'll not...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/23/2005

IE7, Vista and the RSS platform (podcast)

John Udell: "Yesterday I bumped into Amar Gandhi, a program manager on the IE7 team who is working...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/22/2005

Jakob Nielsen interview

IT Conversations has uploaded a 17 min (mp3) interview with usability guru Jakob Nielsen.

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/22/2005

If you've done any AJAX development, you'll find this one interesting

Channel 9 has a video interview with one of the inventors of DHTML, Scott's Isaacs: "...He is one of...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/21/2005

RSS - more exponential trends

Andrew Lampert points out more RSS exponential trends: "TechCrunch is reporting on the recently...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/21/2005

Access by Design: A Guide to Universal Usability for Designers

My first 'real' interview was published yesterday, for Digital Web Magazine.My victim was Sarah...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/21/2005

Coffee machine hacks

You've heard of Virtual Earth hacks and Amazon hacks. Well, welcome to Coffee 2.0 and the Coffee...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/21/2005

Web 2.0 isn't about screenscraping

Dare Obasanjo: "Web 2.0 isn't about screenscraping. Turning the Web into an online platform isn't...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/20/2005

USB for your car

USB for you car. "Volkswagen, Europe's biggest automaker, is thus making the USB connection an...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/19/2005

RSS / Longtail post - update

Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine. who wrote the original The Long Tail acticle, has...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/19/2005

the positive side of having a deaf left ear

Nick Bradbury created the application that has transformed my internet-use behaviour - FeedDemon...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/19/2005

Where to start with Amazon web services (AWS)

What is the Amazon Web Service (AWS)? From Amazon's AWS site (now rebranded Amazon E-Commerce...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/19/2005

Bill Gates meets Napoleon Dynamite

Phil Richardson points to a video of the Bill Gates with Napoleon Dynamite in this spoof video from...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/18/2005

Digital Image Suite 2006 free trial for download now

I have a personal copy of Digital Image Suite 2006 and use almost daily. It has a whole bunch of...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/18/2005

My first and last day in LA (PDC)

Went to the PDC in LA yesterday as we had an internal meeting there. Flew over in the morning, had...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/15/2005

RSS becomes a Pillar of Microsoft Strategy

Rok Hastrik, quoting Dan Gardner: "RSS has evidently become a strong pillar of Microsoft strategy....

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/15/2005

Xbox announces launch dates

Just heard from the BBC: "Microsoft has announced that its next generation Xbox 360 gaming console...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/15/2005

Google feed / blog search follows MSN, - avoids confusion

Poalo Valdermarin has noticed the Google feed crawler is pinging his blog (via Dave Winer) The user...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/14/2005

101 for RSS, Blogging and Podcasting,

Debbie Weil has a useful collection of links to noob content - 101s for Bloggers, Podcasters and...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/14/2005

RSS. Outlook. Integrated.

Jupiter's Michael Gartnerberg: "RSS support in Office is nice. Not only does the system track RSS...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/14/2005

Atlas = Ajax

Microsoft's Atlas went live today. What is Atlas? Atlas = Ajax.

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/14/2005

Gates on Google, MSN APIs and Web 2.0

The MSN Developer Center is now live (did I ever think I would actually utter those words! How...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/14/2005

WinFX Developer Center is Live

WinFX Developer Center is Live.

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/13/2005

Demographic API, getting to know my neighbours

Groovy Mother points to a cool Google Maps / Census data (200) remix created by AnalyGIS and SRC...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/13/2005

Flickr PDC Pic Pool

Flickr PDC Pic Pool Via Steve Butler.

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/13/2005

10 reasons companies don't care about Accessibility

Christian Heilmann has written up a good piece at Digital Web Magazine on the reasons companies...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/13/2005

RSS will fuel at least one exponential-growth online start up

I have feeling I'm going to be pointing to the following blog a lot over the next few weeks.Anyway,...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/12/2005

Oracle to buy Siebel

First I hear eBay has confrimed it is to buy Skype for 2.6bn. That's enough news for one day. Then I...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/12/2005

eBay agrees to buy Skype, but why?

It was only a couple of weeks I wrote of Skype's need to 'get on with it': "ZDNet and WSJ are...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/12/2005

Legalities of RSS feeds syndication

Denise Howell interviews (mp3) Bob Wyman (CEO of PubSub) about the thorny subject of the legalities...